Sciences
1,455 famous people found
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Louis Pasteur
French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist
1822 - 1895 -
Georges DUMÉZIL
French philologist, linguist, and religious studies scholar
1898 - 1986 -
Gabriel Narutowicz
Polish professor of hydroelectric engineering and politician who served as the first President of Poland from 11 December 1922 until his assassination on 16 December
1865 - 1922 -
Jérôme CAHUZAC
French surgeon and former politician
1952 -
James Smithson
English chemist and mineralogist, founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, which also bears his name
1765 - 1829 -
Léon FOUCAULT
French physicist
1819 - 1868 -
Anne WOJCICKI
American entrepreneur, and the co-founder and CEO of the personal genomics company 23andMe
1973 -
Larry PAGE
American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Google
1973 -
Hubert REEVES
French Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science
1932 - 2023 -
Pierre NORA
French historian
1931 -
Cédric VILLANI
French mathematician and politician
1973 -
John Stith PEMBERTON
American biochemist and American Civil War veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola
1831 - 1888 -
John NAPIER
Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer
1550 - 1617 -
Allan Kardec
French educator, translator and author
1804 - 1869 -
Leonhard EULER
Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician and engineer
1707 - 1783 -
André CITROËN
French industrialist and freemason of Dutch and Polish extraction
1878 - 1935 -
Yves COPPENS
French anthropologist
1934 - 2022 -
Didier RAOULT
French biology researcher
1952 -
Samuel GUICHENON
French historian and genealogist
1607 - 1664 -
Germaine TILLION
French ethnologist, and a member of the French resistance
1907 - 2008